'penury' in The Faraway Nearby | Bookmarker

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(noun) a cramping and oppressive lack of resources (as money) / (noun) severe poverty / (noun) extreme and often niggardly frugality

Luxuries and fine goods had been scarce in Iceland's penurious past

—p.143 Unwound (141) by Rebecca Solnit

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